Did you know that the implications of a developmental disorder can be very significant in later life, if undetected and not responded to? What might potentially be a major problem in later life can be avoided through the simple act of becoming aware and responding early in life.
If you are working with or planning to help children in a caring capacity, this advanced certificate is a must to enhance your knowledge of childhood mental health. The online course would cover definitions of various groups of disorder as well as motor and communication disorders. You will also learn how to identify the signs, symptoms and treatments for these different classes of childhood disorder.
This advanced online course takes approximately 400 hours to complete, but you have full access for 12 months to suit your self-paced learning.
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1. Nature and Scope of Developmental Disorders – Intellectual Disability / Learning Disability
2. Autism – Autistic Disorder signs, symptoms, treatment and support
3. Asperger’s Disorder – signs, symptoms, treatment and support
4. Other Pervasive Developmental Disorders (Rett’s Disorder, Childhood Disintegrative Disorder, Developmental Disorders NOS) signs, symptoms, treatment and support
5. Attention-Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders – ADHD & variants, signs, symptoms, treatment and support
6. Conduct Disorders (Include oppositional defiant disorder) signs, symptoms, treatment and support
7. Learning Disorders – focus on academia (Mathematics, Reading Disorder – Dyslexia, etc.) signs, symptoms, treatment and support
8. Communications Disorders & Motor Skills Disorder – focus on speech and language signs, symptoms, treatment, and support
9. Youth and Crime
10. Nature and Scope of Mental Health – looking at difference between adult and child and adolescent mental health.
11. Childhood Depression – how it changes when reaching adolescence; signs and symptoms and treatments
12. Anxiety Disorders – separation, generalised etc. school phobias, social phobias etc. signs/symptoms/treatment
13. Tic Disorders – Tourette’s etc. signs/symptoms/treatment
14. Brain Disorders (Injury & Disease) signs/symptoms/treatment
15. Other Disorders – Motor Disorders, Elimination Disorders, Feeding & Eating Disorders; signs/symptoms/treatment
16. Environmental Problems – Abuse and Neglect, Relationship Problems signs/symptoms/treatment
17. Problems of Adolescence – Anorexia, Bulimia, Substance Use, Family Conflict signs/symptoms/treatment
18. Holistic and Alternative Approaches to Treatment – this should be a general approach to dealing with children & adolescents i.e., not directed at specific conditions
18. Special Project – student chooses something of interest
Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school’s tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.
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